Rationale:
One of the most important things for
children to learn in reading is reading
comprehension. Summarization
is one of the ways that
children learn to comprehend. This lesson will help children
learn to
summarize stories as a group and then work on their own to summarize.

Materials:
-Paper
-Pencil
-Chalkboard
-Chalk
-A bookmark for each student with the 5
summarization steps on it
Summarization
steps:
1.
Pick
out important details that are necessary to the story.
2.
Pick
out the less important or repeated ideas from the passage and eliminate
them.
3.
Highlight
the important and necessary details using key words.
4.
Pick
a topic sentence
5.
Invent
a topic sentence if there is none.
-Copy of A copy of
National Geographic Article “U.S. Endangered Species Act Works” by
Maryann Mott
for each student
for each student.

Procedure:
1. Start
by asking the students if they know what comprehension means. "Good
job! Comprehension is understanding what you
read and then remembering if after you have finished. .
Today we are going to learn a couple of
steps that are going to help us comprehend our reading.Our
new technique is called
summarization.To summarize we pick out the most
important parts of the text. The entire time we are
reading we take
out the parts of the text that do not add to our main idea.

2. Explain
summarization. “Summarization has 5 easy steps to
remember."
WI will write them on the board as they are explained so students will
follow
along. "Step
one is to pick out important details that we think are necessary to the
story. The second step is to pick out the less
important ideas or ideas that are repeated and take them away.
Number three is to use key words to
highlight the important parts of the text.The next
thing that we do is to pick our
topic sentence. Our last step is to invent a topic
sentence if we don’t have one.I will
then pass out the bookmarks so that the children can have a way to
remember the
5 steps.I will encourage them to use
these whenever they are reading.

3. "Alright, now that
we are familiar with comprehension and summarization, we are going to
read a
passage from an article and put our steps into action.
Read the first paragraph
SILENTLY to yourselves. While you are reading,
make sure that you are getting enough information to summarize the
paragraph. When summarizing, remember
how key it is to make sure that you are trying to figure out the
important
details from the ones that might not be so important.
Raise your hand when you
are done so we’ll know when to move on."

4. After the class is finished
reading, I will model for them the first time. I will go through
the five steps and to let them know how they should be
looking to find the things that will help them summarize and the things
that
they can discard.

5. "Does everyone
feel that they understand how to summarize? GOOD now that y’all
are sure you know how
to summarize, I want each of you to summarize the rest of the article
on your
own.

6. When they have finished
reading silently, they will summarize the article on their own. "Now
that you have
completed the reading, take out your piece of paper and pencil to summarize the article.
Don’t forget to remember to
list the important details of the article.
Separate the important details from the less important ones.
List your keywords and
then using your main ideas and keywords make a topic sentence.
If you have any questions
do not hesitate to ask me.
7. Assessment, I will
collect their
summarizations and read each to see if they have used the five steps of
summarization towrite their summary.
I will also be walking
around while they are writing their summaries to make sure that they
are on the
right track.

References:

Vest, Amy. What’s the Main Idea??

Mary Cox
Brown

Lesson
Design 4

Sum it UP

Rationale:One of the most important things for
children to learn in reading is reading comprehension.Summarization
is one of the ways that
children learn to comprehend. This lesson will help children learn to
summarize stories as a group and then work on their own to summarize.

Materials:-Paper-Pencil-Chalkboard-Chalk-A bookmark for each student with the 5
summarization steps on it Summarization steps: 1.Pick
out important details that are necessary to the story. 2.Pick
out the less important or repeated ideas from the passage and eliminate
them. 3.Highlight
the important and necessary details using key words. 4.Pick
a topic sentence 5.Invent
a topic sentence if there is none. -Copy of A copy of
National Geographic Article “U.S. Endangered Species Act Works” by
Maryann Mott
for each student for each student.

Procedure:
1.Start
by asking the students if they know what comprehension means."Good
job! Comprehension is understanding what you
read and then remembering if after you have finished. .
Today we are going to learn a couple of
steps that are going to help us comprehend our reading.Our
new technique is called
summarization.To summarize we pick out the most
important parts of the text. The entire time we are reading we take
out the parts of the text that do not add to our main idea.

2.Explain
summarization.“Summarization has 5 easy steps to
remember."
WI will write them on the board as they are explained so students will
follow
along."Step
one is to pick out important details that we think are necessary to the
story. The second step is to pick out the less
important ideas or ideas that are repeated and take them away.
Number three is to use key words to
highlight the important parts of the text.The
next thing that we do is to pick our
topic sentence. Our last step is to invent a topic
sentence if we don’t have one.I will
then pass out the bookmarks so that the children can have a way to
remember the
5 steps.I will encourage them to use
these whenever they are reading.

3. "Alright, now that
we are familiar with comprehension and summarization, we are going to
read a
passage from an article and put our steps into action. Read the first paragraph
SILENTLY to yourselves. While you are reading,
make sure that you are getting enough information to summarize the
paragraph. When summarizing, remember
how key it is to make sure that you are trying to figure out the
important
details from the ones that might not be so important. Raise your hand when you
are done so we’ll know when to move on."

4. After the class is finished
reading, I will model for them the first time. I will go through
the five steps and to let them know how they should be
looking to find the things that will help them summarize and the things
that
they can discard.

5. "Does everyone
feel that they understand how to summarize? GOOD now that y’all are sure you know how
to summarize, I want each of you to summarize the rest of the article
on your
own.

6. When they have finished
reading silently, they will summarize the article on their own. "Now
that you have
completed the reading, take out your piece of paper and pencil to summarize the article. Don’t forget to remember to
list the important details of the article. Separate the important details
from the less important ones. List your keywords and
then using your main ideas and keywords make a topic sentence. If you have any questions
do not hesitate to ask me.
7. Assessment, I will
collect their
summarizations and read each to see if they have used the five steps of
summarization towrite their summary.
I will also be walking
around while they are writing their summaries to make sure that they
are on the
right track.